New estimates of early hominid body size
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Vol. 52 (1), 63-70
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330520109
Abstract
Body weights for 12 early hominid specimens are estimated based on an analysis of four variables shown to have high correlation with body size in living Old World primates. Average size estimates of around 36 kg are suggested for gracile early hominids and around 59 kg for robust early hominids. Size variation is considerably more pronounced in the robust group than in the gracile group, suggesting substantially greater sexual dimorphism in the former.Keywords
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